In this excerpt, Morton ruminates about some of the successes of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen during its tenure. Focusing particularly on local efforts to integrate, Morton explains how the Fellowship helped to pioneer new ground in terms of organization and strategies for integration. In particular, she notes how the Fellowship helped to integrate swimming pools in places like Junaluska and Montreat, North Carolina. At the same time, however, she notes the visceral opposition they often faced and the impact that had on people, citing specifically a young African American woman who committed suicide because "she had taken as much as she could."